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Two-wheel tractor or walking tractor

Aug 13, 2010 Click:1

Two-wheel tractor or walking tractor are generic terms understood in the USA and in parts of Europe to represent a single-axle tractor, which is a tractor with one axle, self-powered and self-propelled, which can pull and power various farm implements such as a trailer, cultivator or harrow, a plough, or various seeders and harvesters. The operator usually walks behind it or rides the implement being towed. Similar terms are mistakenly applied to the household rotary tiller or power tiller that may be wheeled and/or self-propelled but often is not. A further distinction is seen in the two-wheeled tractor's ability to operate disparate types of agricultural equipment, while rotary tillers are smaller and specialize in soil tillage. This article concerns two-wheeled tractors as distinguished from such tillers